How stupid do you have to be to proclaim you're part of something called "The Tea Party" . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

. . . . wear silly hats with dangling tea bags and then expect to be taken seriously? How can you keep a straight face when trying to tell someone you seriously think the president of the US was born in Kenya? How do you expect to make any political headway when the champions of your "party" are a failed half term governor of clearly low intellectual capacity, a sitting Congresswoman who once was caught on film skulking behind bushes trying to prove a rival was gay, and a rich blowhard of questionable ethics, who gave a shitload of money to Democrats (his true leanings), who now plays you like fools over that Kenya thing, and who is lately little more than rich fodder for MAD Magazine?

How fucking ignorant are you?

Seriously.

[Drale]

1. Fear is a powerful tool

People who let fear rule their lives join a group called the tea party.

[thereismore]

4. Tools are they. nt

[white_wolf]

5. The members of the tea party are useful idiots Lenin talked about.

[Terra Alta]

7. They feel Obama will turn this into a socialist country.

I, for one, wish their fears would be realized.

[Drale]

14. Many people would die because their heads exploded if

they ever figured out what socialism really is.

[RKP5637]

2. I think a fair number are wacky as hell! n/t

[madrchsod]

3. tea bags were invented in 1903 plus.....

we elect our representatives to local,state,and national office.

yup, just how fucking ignorant are they?

[Terra Alta]

6. They are all very ignorant

No intelligent person takes them seriously. The Tea Party is a small minority of our population(funded by the Koch brothers) who have achieved little success. They will fade into oblivion soon enough. They are good for entertainment, though.

[Mister Ed]

8. About that congresswoman in the bushes...

It actually had nothing to do with any allegedly gay rival. She just ducked down behind the bushes at the state capitol to avoid being seen by the protesters massed there in opposition to her hateful and homophobic anti-gay-marriage bill.

But man, you should've been at the town hall meeting where she ran screaming from the ladies' restroom, claiming that she was being held captive by lesbians. I wasn't there, but a few of my neighbors were. The two "lesbian captors" that emerged from the restroom looking puzzled and concerned were just a couple of constituents - one of them a nun - who'd been continuing the policy discussion from the meeting.

Well, okay. I guess I'm just making your point. How effing deluded and ignorant would people have to be to rally behind a political leader like that?

[guitar man]

9. Well, in all honesty

The white hoods they had before they adopted the teabag hats looked pretty silly too :spray:

[lunatica]

10. They're just using up their Stupid Quota

A quote from I don't know who: “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”

[PeaceNikki]

11. The use of the term was ludicrous from the start, as the original Boston Tea Party was

an anti-corporate protest of taxation without representation targeted towards the monopoly on tea held by the East India Trading Company. Today's Teabaggers seem to want to ironically protect corporate profiteering off your healthcare transactions while opposing government spending, but only Obama's spending, not the last 30 years of reckless overspending on defense or government funding of GOP-friendly church groups between 2000 and 2004 in battleground states. Teabaggers are apparently tricked easily to work for the GOP exclusively, or they'd have been protesting Reagan's original $3.5 trillion dollar deficit as it happened, asking for fiscal oversight all throughout the Iraq War or questioned the deregulation and tax cuts for the rich that came at the expense of the middle class as trickle-down economics not only proved fake but destroyed the American economy in the process, leaving this administration no good options.

Also... origin of the term "Teabaggers"? It came from the movement itself, when they asked people to "teabag" Obama by sending symbolic teabags, apparently ignorant of the college prank of the same name. This was all well documented, including here: http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/04/10/gop-wants-to-teabag-barack-obama/ If they don't want to be called Teabaggers, they shouldn't use "teabag" as a verb, as found on their t-shirts or signs which are easily seen in Google Images searches. It's pretty basic to call someone who teabags a teabagger, so I'm surprised some are now taking offense. Maybe there is a split between the teabaggers on this issue?

[Bonhomme Richard]

12. Well, it gets a milder response than KKK n/t

[txlibdem]

13. I keep getting requests to donate to "The Coffee Party"

The brain child of a young Capitalist, it has succeeded in doing nothing but collect donations.

Who is the bigger fool? The fool that lets the Koch brothers pull their strings or the fool that thinks that some Capitalist is going to do anything but line their own pockets.

When will the victims of the GOP class warfare realize that wealthy sociopaths will never do anything to help us. We must make the change we want.

[Raine]

15. I saw a bumpersticker on a car that said "TEA PARTIES ...

are for Little Girls and Imaginary Friends" :thumbsup: :-)

[Shandris]

16. Heard today on the general chat of my preferred MMO...

"I like Tea. I like Parties. Proof that 2 things good on their own aren't necessarily good together -- the Tea Party." :P